[Commlist] Edited Collection CFP: Animation and Sustainability

*Call for Papers*

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*Chapter proposals are sought for the edited collection: /Animation and 
Sustainability/*

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*Proposals due by Friday 26 January 2024*

Sustainability occupies a prominent place in our day-to-day lives, from 
extreme weather being reported on the news, to slick social 
responsibility narratives from large corporations permeating our social 
media feeds, to the mandatory training tasks that punctuate our 
professional lives. Yet, despite the broad focus provided by the United 
Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), sustainability is 
often presented as being primarily concerned with climate change. As 
Robert Brinkmann (2023) notes: “Sustainability is a term that focuses on 
sustaining of Earth’s planetary resources for future generations”. 
However, the word sustainability, much like the word animation, has the 
power to represent a wide variety of possible interpretations. This 
collection seeks to explore the multiple ways that sustainability and 
animation overlap.

Editors Cristina Formenti and Chris Pallant invite submissions to a 
peer-reviewed edited collection to be proposed to Bloomsbury Academic. 
Finished chapters will need to be 6000-8000 words in length, and we will 
expect authors to submit these finished chapters by 1 December 2024.

Possible subjects may include, but are not limited to:

  * Data-led analyses of animation production from a sustainability
    perspective
  * Animation’s representation of the UN’s SDGs
  * ‘Useful animation’ and sustainability education
  * Sustainability as narrative within animated storytelling
  * Animation archives and sustainability
  * Sustainable pipelines and the animation industry
  * Animation and toxic materiality
  * Animation and environmental sustainability
  * Sustainability in the age of digital animation
  * Sustainable pipelines and the animation industry
  * Gendered perspectives on the (un)sustainability of the animation
    industry
  * Carbon calculators and green protocols for the animation industry
  * Building partnerships through/with animation

*Proposal Deadline:*

Please send proposals of up to 400 words, plus a short biography of no 
more than 100 words (including your name, affiliation and professional 
email address), to (animationsustainability /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(animationsustainability /at/ gmail.com)> by *Friday 26 January 2024.*

Reference:

Brinkmann, R. (2023) ‘Defining Sustainability’, in Brinkmann, R (ed.) 
/The Palgrave Handbook of Global Sustainability/. Palgrave Macmillan. 
Cham: Switzerland, pp.3-22.


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